Political Quotes

“as we get to the end of this debate, I think it is wise if we look at some of the facts of the debate and not just the rhetoric. We debated this matter virtually nonstop from 10:30 yesterday morning until 8:10 yesterday evening. We did it without intervening business. I do not think we had as much as 5 minutes expended in quorum calls. For our side, this was certainly not a dilatory debate but a substantive one. It was not the politics of personal destruction, but the Senate exercising its constitutional responsibility to examine one of the most important nominations that this President or any President could send to the Senate. Let's go over the facts. The Senate received the President's nomination on Monday afternoon of this week. The Judiciary Committee debated this nomination on Tuesday afternoon the following day, and voted on it that evening. We began the Senate debate yesterday morning, less than 48 hours after receiving the nomination. We are concluding it in less than 14 and one half hours of Senate debate. We are voting up or down on this nomination this afternoon. I mention this because I have heard those who point to the nomination of the last Attorney General, Janet Reno, as some sort of model of speedy confirmation. She was nominated after an earlier nomination had hearings and was withdrawn. Her nomination was not voted upon for a month after she was nominated.”